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by adrianh 13y ago
Thanks. We're definitely interested in making something for music teachers. I teach gypsy-jazz guitar at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and I've used Soundslice with my students a teeny bit but so much more is possi
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by adrianh 13y ago
Thanks! A few people have suggested that idea -- creating a new YouTube video with the tabs overlaid -- but it's a low priority for us, given everything else we want to do. Nice work with BandHub!
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by adrianh 13y ago
The vast majority of guitarists still use those ASCII tabs, not Guitar Pro -- but, fair point! The biggest problem with Guitar Pro is that the playback is synthetic/MIDI. Our philosophy is that learning from a real recording is the b
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by adrianh 13y ago
Yeah, automatic music transcription is the holy grail for Soundslice. Given a song, automatically generate the tab and chords. It'd be amazing! There's software now that claims to do it (Capo, Riffstation, Chordify), but they all
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by adrianh 13y ago
Totally understand. We're pretty close to launching a "stacked" display that shows the tab in rows, with vertical scrolling instead of horizontal scrolling. I suspect this will address that for you nicely. To answer your ques
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by adrianh 13y ago
We sell tabs as part of our Pitch Perfect program ( http://www.soundslice.com/pitch-perfect/ ), and for that we deal directly with the artist to clear copyrights. The YouTube (free) part of the site is meant to be a loss
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by adrianh 13y ago
Hey, thanks! I hadn't come across Cifra Club -- much appreciated.
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Yes, definitely looked into Lilypond. It produces beautiful sheet music, but I can't use it because (1) it's GPL and I intend to license the technology, (2) I'm generating the notation client-side (for responsive design) an
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by adrianh 13y ago
Thanks! The software scales up to that stuff. There's a bunch of complicated stuff transcribed on Soundslice. Here's an arpeggio exercise in the style of Satriani et al: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/4976&#x2
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by adrianh 13y ago
Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the
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by adrianh 13y ago
Reminds me of Draft, which seems much more fully featured (and is made by frequent YC contributor Nate Kontny): https://draftin.com/
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by adrianh 13y ago
Paul is awesome, and this is going to make a great documentary movie, whatever happens in the end. :) I believe he has a film crew following him around.
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How to redirect domains using Amazon Web Services(holovaty.com)
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Adrian's guide to Chicago for DjangoCon 2013(holovaty.com)
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by adrianh 13y ago
This is very cool! Also check out Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ), which does the same thing for YouTube videos and MP3s. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/demo/
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How to make help microvideos for your website(holovaty.com)
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by adrianh 13y ago
We're doing the guitar tablature thing at Soundslice: http://www.soundslice.com/demo We've got standard notation support high on our to-do list. :-) It's sort of a different product than RiffUp, as Soundslice
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Using HTML5 prerendering to speed up a multi-page registration process(holovaty.com)
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by adrianh 13y ago
Ha, I guess you're right! I must say it's become more interesting than I expected.
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by adrianh 13y ago
Yes, in fact that's what I do! The issue is I need to account for any new servers that might spin up later (hence updating the AMI). I could also change the AMI's "user data" to run pip when the instance loads, but I'm not 100% confident it
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by adrianh 13y ago
I don't have a definitive answer for the blog, to be honest. I just add four more dynos (to bring it up to five total) and it seems to be fine. I figure it's only for a few hours, so I can be sloppy about it without needing to worry about h
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by adrianh 13y ago
OP here. I actually used to use App Engine for Soundslice, about a year before Soundslice launched publicly. It was cool in principle, but it's severely limited to the point where I just couldn't run my app on it. Plus there was wildly vary
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by adrianh 13y ago
Heh -- my blog is still hosted on Heroku, and I forgot to up the dynos. Which I suppose is a nice (and ironic) argument for doing the AWS auto-scaling stuff! The site I was writing about, soundslice.com, has not seen any blips.
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by adrianh 13y ago
No, definitely not on every deploy! For a deploy, I just do a "git pull" on all of the production boxes and restart the web server. Baking a new AMI only happens when there are new underlying dependencies, like a new package from apt-get or
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by adrianh 13y ago
Which site? My blog? The blog is still on Heroku, and it sounds like it was overloaded for a while there. I just upped the number of dynos, so it should be fine. I don't have any indication that soundslice.com (which is the site I'm hosting
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by adrianh 13y ago
Hey, I'd love to join! I'll buy the beers if you two guys just teach me all the sysadmin stuff you know. :-D
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by adrianh 13y ago
It took about four full days of work, spread out over a couple of weeks. It would have taken me much longer had I not been helped by Scott (my friend mentioned in the post). I don't know the details of your app, but $170/month sounds high f
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by adrianh 13y ago
Definitely a great point. Fortunately my session cookies are teeny .
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by adrianh 13y ago
Ah, I should have mentioned this in the post. The price is going to end up being basically the same. I could have done it even cheaper, but I'm paying extra for multi-AZ stuff (i.e., making the database and load balancer available in multip
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by adrianh 13y ago
Believe me, I am sad to stop using Postgres. What parts of RDS haven't been worth the effort? I didn't have to make much effort, beyond rewriting my Postgres triggers into MySQL syntax.

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